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Education SOS

Economists have long predicted that education will be the fuel that drives the global economy. Well, many nations have already begun to rev their engines, while America's is stalled.

Several Latin American governments now provide monthly stipends to poor parents who keep their children in school rather than sending them to work in factories or on the streets. Some 20 million people in Mexico, Honduras, and Nicaragua already participate in such programs. By 2006, 11.4 million families in Brazil will participate in the stipend...